Monday, October 1, 2007

Three poems - Muse Apprentice Guild

Three poems of mine were published under one of my pseudonymns, Flora Gael, in the Muse Apprentice Guild around 2002-2003. The M.A.G., as it was called, was a cool avant garde-ish publication edited by August Highland that has not been updated since Winter 2006. Below I offer the three poems of mine that were published (the archives seem to have mostly disappeared, so I cannot provide a direct link to the poems):

DEATH A HEART THROWN BACKWARDS(derived poetry)

Through a window of hellI glimpsed an ancient sunnaked except for a mask of skeletons

Through a labyrinth of hellI walked into a secret voidrustling like a blind volcano

In the palaces of hellI am an oblique prisonerI travel through truthsand eclipse all solitudeswith my casket of wings

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UNTITLED

I have become what I am not:my eyes are warm hallucinationsthat can lacerate a wolf's heartmy heart is a swarm of saintsthat are dizzy like the eyes of a wolf

my thoughts can plunderan army of chimerasmy dreams can tamea terror of prayers

with one breath I can destroy what I am notand become the eyes of a swarm of dreams

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BLUE GYPSY(for Edvard Munch)

The tempests teem with blue ghostswho stalk through veils of thunderand gulp lightning with their eyes

the tempests teem with blue rainthat twirls like gypsiesthrough a tunnel of veiled ghosts